Dr SANDRA Olarte Mantilla
Research Officer
Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
+61 7 344 32475
Researcher biography
Sandra is a Sensory & Consumer scientist working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland in its institute Queensland Alliance of Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI). Sandra started her career as a Sensory & Consumer Scientist ten years ago when she started her PhD in Wine science at the University of Adelaide. Sandra’s role has been focused on providing her food and beverages Sensory & Consumer Science expertise in several multidisciplinary projects co-funded by The Australian Research Council and Food industry partners at QAAFI’s Centre for Nutrition and Food Science (CNAFS). Sandra’s most recent appointment at QAAFI-CNAFS involves providing her expertise in sensory and consumer science in the new ARC Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods.
Journal Articles
Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Shewan, Heather M., Shingleton, Rebecca, Hort, Joanne, Stokes, Jason R. and Smyth, Heather E. (2022). Oral physiology, sensory acuity, product experience and personality traits impact consumers’ ability to detect particles in yoghurt. Food Quality and Preference, 96 104391, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104391
Wang, Shaoyang, Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Smith, Paul A., Stokes, Jason R. and Smyth, Heather E. (2021). Tribology and QCM-D approaches provide mechanistic insights into red wine mouthfeel, astringency sub-qualities and the role of saliva. Food Hydrocolloids, 120 106918, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2021.106918
Alagappan, S., Rowland, D., Barwell, R., Mantilla, S. M. O., Mikkelsen, D., James, P., Yarger, O. and Hoffman, L.C. (2021). Legislative landscape of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) as feed. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 8 (4), 343-355. doi: 10.3920/jiff2021.0111
Alagappan, Shanmugam, Chaliha, Mridusmita, Sultanbawa, Yasmina, Fuller, Steve, Hoffman, Louwrens C., Netzel, Gabriele, Weber, Nadine, Rychlik, Michael, Cozzolino, Daniel, Smyth, Heather E. and Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M. (2021). Nutritional analysis, volatile composition, antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of Australian green ants (Oecophylla smaragdina). Future Foods, 3 100007, 100007. doi: 10.1016/j.fufo.2020.100007
Shelat, Kinnari J., Adiamo, Oladipupo Q., Mantilla, Sandra M. Olarte, Smyth, Heather E., Tinggi, Ujang, Hickey, Sarah, Rühmann, Broder, Sieber, Volker and Sultanbawa, Yasmina (2021). Correction: Shelat, K.J.; et al. Overall Nutritional and Sensory Profile of Different Species of Australian Wattle Seeds (Acacia spp.): Potential Food Sources in the Arid and Semi-Arid Regions. Foods 2019, 8, 482. Foods, 10 (3) 650, 650. doi: 10.3390/foods10030650
Wang, Shaoyang, Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Smith, Paul A., Stokes, Jason R. and Smyth, Heather E. (2020). Astringency sub-qualities drying and pucker are driven by tannin and pH – Insights from sensory and tribology of a model wine system. Food Hydrocolloids, 109 106109, 106109. doi: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2020.106109
Sultanbawa, Yasmina, Chaliha, Mridusmita, Phan, Anh Dao T., Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Netzel, Gaby, Netzel, Michael E., Smyth, Heather and Cozzolino, Daniel (2020). An infrared analysis of Terminalia ferdinandiana exell [Combretaceae] fruit and leaves—towards the development of biospectroscopy tools to characterise uniquely Australian foods. Food Analytical Methods, 14 (3), 423-429. doi: 10.1007/s12161-020-01915-z
Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Shewan, Heather M., Shingleton, Rebecca, Stokes, Jason R. and Smyth, Heather E. (2020). Ability to detect and identify the presence of particles influences consumer acceptance of yoghurt. Food Quality and Preference, 85 103979, 103979. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2020.103979
Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Alagappan, Shanmugam, Sultanbawa, Yasmina, Smyth, Heather E. and Cozzolino, Daniel (2020). A mid infrared (MIR) spectroscopy study of the composition of edible Australian green ants (Oecophylla smaragdina)—a qualitative study. Food Analytical Methods, 13 (8), 1627-1633. doi: 10.1007/s12161-020-01783-7
Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Alagappan, Shanmugam, Chaliha, Mridusmita, Sultanbawa, Yasmina, Smyth, Heather and Cozzolino, Daniel (2020). A practical approach on the combination of GC-MS and chemometric tools to study Australian edible green ants. Food Analytical Methods, 13 (7), 1475-1481. doi: 10.1007/s12161-020-01768-6
Grace, Emily, Olarte Mantilla, Sandra, Sunarharum, Wenny Bekti, Ong, Cheng Mun, Waanders, Jennifer, D'Arcy, Bruce Robert and Smyth, Heather Eunice (2020). Sensory properties of yellow pea and macadamia honeys from conventional and flow hive extraction methods. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 100 (5) jsfa.10221, 2027-2034. doi: 10.1002/jsfa.10221
Deshmukh, Omkar S., Dhital, Sushil, Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Smyth, Heather E., Boehm, Michael W., Baier, Stefan K. and Stokes, Jason R. (2019). Ring Shear Tester as an in-vitro testing tool to study oral processing of comminuted potato chips. Food Research International, 123, 208-216. doi: 10.1016/j.foodres.2019.04.037
Shelat, Kinnari J., Adiamo, Oladipupo Q., Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Smyth, Heather E., Tinggi, Ujang, Hickey, Sarah, Rühmann, Broder, Sieber, Volker and Sultanbawa, Yasmina (2019). Overall nutritional and sensory profile of different species of Australian wattle seeds (Acacia spp.): Potential food sources in the arid and semi-arid regions. Foods, 8 (10) 482, 482. doi: 10.3390/foods8100482
Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Collins, Cassandra, Patrick G. Iland, G. Iland, Kidman, Catherine M., Ristic, Renata, Boss, Paul K., Jordans, Charlotte and Bastian, Susan E. P. (2018). Shiraz (Vitis vinifera L.) berry and wine sensory profiles and composition are modulated by rootstocks. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 69 (1), 32-44. doi: 10.5344/ajev.2017.17017
Culbert, Julie, Verdonk, Naomi, Ristic, Renata, Olarte Mantilla, Sandra, Lane, Melissa, Pearce, Karma, Cozzolino, Daniel and Wilkinson, Kerry (2016). Understanding consumer preferences for Australian sparkling wine vs. French champagne. Beverages, 2 (3) 19, 19.1-19.12. doi: 10.3390/beverages2030019
Mantilla, Sandra M. Olarte, Collins, Cassandra, Iland, Patrick G., Kidman, Catherine M., Ristic, Renata, Hasted, Anne, Jordans, Charlotte and Bastian, Susan E. P. (2015). Relationships between grape and wine sensory attributes and compositional measures of cv. Shiraz. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 66 (2), 177-186. doi: 10.5344/ajev.2014.14086
Kidman, Catherine M., Olarte Mantilla, Sandra, Dry, Peter R., McCarthy, Michael G. and Collins, Cassandra (2014). Effect of water stress on the reproductive performance of Shiraz (Vitis vinifera L.) grafted to rootstocks. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 65 (1), 96-108. doi: 10.5344/ajev.2013.13069
Olarte Mantilla, S. M., Collins, C., Iland, P. G., Kidman, C. M., Jordans, C. and Bastian, S. E. P. (2013). Comparison of sensory attributes of fresh and frozen wine grape berries using Berry Sensory Assessment. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research, 19 (3), 349-357. doi: 10.1111/ajgw.12041
Olarte Mantilla, S. M., Collins, C., Iland, P. G., Johnson, T. E. and Bastian, S. E. P. (2012). Review: Berry sensory assessment: concepts and practices for assessing winegrapes' sensory attributes. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research, 18 (3), 245-255. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0238.2012.00203.x
Conference Papers
Chen, Gengning, Cozzolino, Daniel, Netzel, Michael E., Olarte Mantilla, Sandra, Adhikari, Kamalesh and Sultanbawa, Yasmina (2021). Nutritional quality and food functionality of Pleiogynium timoriense fruit. Joint virtual Workshop between The ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods (ARC ITTC UAF), Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and The SARChI Research Programme in Phytochemical Food Network to Improve the Nutritional Quality for Consumers, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa, Virtual, 24-25 August 2021.
Mantilla, Sandra Milena Olarte, Lyons, Philippa, O'Hare, Tim J. and Smyth, Heather Eunice (2020). Purple sweetcorn—an innovative horticultural product—consumer views. Third International Tropical Agriculture Conference (TROPAG 2019), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11–13 November 2019. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI AG. doi: 10.3390/proceedings2019036102
Wang, Shaoyang, Smyth, Heather E., Mantilla, Sandra M. Olarte, Stokes, Jason R. and Smith, Paul A. (2020). Discerning wine astringency sub-qualities by tribological approaches in a model system—what is the role of saliva?. Third International Tropical Agriculture Conference (TROPAG 2019), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11 – 13 November 2019. Basel, 4052 Switzerland: M D P I AG. doi: 10.3390/proceedings2019036061
Sultanbawa, Y., Shelat, K., Cross, D., Olarte Mantilla, S. and Smyth, H. (2017). Value added nutritionally rich products from Australian wattle seeds (Acacia species). TropAg2017, International Tropical Agriculture Conference, Brisbane, Qld, Australia, 20-22 November 2017. Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers.